Grimes Speaks at GDP Center’s GEGI Seminar Series

William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke at a March 5, 2019 talk at the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, an affiliated center of the Pardee School, on the IMF and its discontents, the emergence of RFAs, the lending of the RFAs after the financial crisis, and the incremental shifts and the decentralization of the IMF.

The talk, entitled “Constructing a Financial Safety Net for the 21st Century: Global Meets Regional,” was held as part of the GDP Center’s Spring 2019 Global Economic Governance Initiative Luncheon Seminar Series. Grimes and GDP Center Assistant Director William N. Kring also discussed an article they co-wrote for a special issue of the journal Development and Change.

William W. Grimes is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he has taught since 1996. He previously served as chair of the Department of International Relations and as the first director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia.  He has also spent time as a post-doctoral researcher and as a visiting assistant professor at Harvard University.

The GDP Center is a university-wide research center in partnership with the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability.